The gradual re-introduction of certain food groups (nuts and dairy for instance)

Slowly raising of calories

Protein heavy meals

Vegetable heavy meals

No grains or sugars

No legumes

She does say some use of sweeteners is okay like stevia and erythritol.

Here is a video that describes the general principles that make a successful Phase 3 for stabilizing your weight loss after finishing a round of the hCG Diet:

What needs to be kept in mind is that many people give a LOT of important to the diet phase of hCG when they are losing weight, but we sometimes slack off in being fastidious or purposeful about P3. Being cautious and pragmatic about P3 is the only way to actually maintain the weight you just lost. If it’s haphazard or you don’t have a plan, weight comes back very easily.

It has been awhile since I’ve discussed your options for following the hCG diet plan – things have changed in recent years, and while the rules for telehealth become more and more stringent, you can still purchase hCG injections online legally through the online sources I’ve linked to.

These 4 sources that hCGChica mentions are all real companies with a brick and mortar office and use the laws governing telelhealth to have you fill out a medical intake form, either during or after the checkout process, after which a doctor prescribes you your hCG and mixing liquid and syringes, and then mails you the entire package directly from one of the compounding pharmacies they use.

One thing to keep in mind is that the FDA got involved with the use of hCG for the hCG Diet a few years ago, and while they didn’t make the prescription hCG hormone illegal to use, they did ban a number of companies making and selling homeopathic hCG sources. This is a common misunderstanding.

You can see this gal hCGChica’s real results with the hCG Diet here:

Noteworthy is that it appears she’s still maintaining her weight loss today, several years later.

Additionally, there are quite a few interviews with other women who have successfully lost quite a bit of weight with this protocol:

You have to eat less than your body needs to maintain- which means you will often be hungry (although actually there IS a work around for this on one particular diet- more on that later).

Your mood is grumpier.

Your social life goes down the tubes.

In fact, after I thought of writing this blogpost, I decided to do a youtube search on why diets suck, and guess what? I’m not the only one who’s thought this.

You’re having to put your body into a state of non-normalcy in order to lose weight, and that’s why it’s hard. Anytime you don’t feel normal, life is harder.

In the end though, millions of people believe it’s worth it because they go on diets every year- often more than one diet, and often more than once a year.

Why? Because it also sucks being overweight.

If you can get through the yuckiness of the diet to a better body, usually people are pretty happy in their new body, and you can go back to eating at least at a maintenance level (even if of course it’s now healthier overall than you used to eat) and have a satisfied tummy.

But there are a lot of overweight people in the world. The only way to lose weight IS to make a change in your eating habits, which is usually classified as some type of diet.

It’s not necessarily something that you have to do forever.

There are some great choices out there for losing weight in a fairly quick manner so you can get it over with. Are they all healthy? Overall, honestly it seems like most diets are healthier than any previous way that a person might have been eating.

It seems to argue that a previous once-a-day-mcdonald’s addict is doing something less healthy by doing atkins, south beach, the hCG Diet, heck even Weight Watchers. They all probably have their weak points, but again I ask you,

Are any of these options less choice than a person’s previous poor eating habits?

I rest my case.

So yeah, I believe in general, when done because you’re actually overweight, most diets are healthy enough.